On arrival into Medan airport we planned on getting aboard a bus which would take us to the main bus terminal for the city and from there get onward transport to Bukit Lawang where we would fit in our last three days in Indonesia. As we made our way out of the airport we were […]
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Another long and tiring journey later and we arrived into the town of Probolinggo. This is the town from which we would catch onward transport to the village from where we would climb Mt Bromo. Although we decided to overnight in Probolinggo as the three of us were very sleepy after being up for 20
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We arrived into Bali early after our flight from Makassar to spend the day in the town of Kuta where we strolled along the busy high street filled with souvenir shops, ate our weight in frozen yoghurt (no regrets) and wandered up and down the beach filled with trainee surfers. That night we returned to
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Bloody.Hard.Work As we hadn’t done any real physical exertion for a while and after the deep disappointment of not being able to climb mount Kinabalu we set our sights on climbing the volcanic summit of Mount Rinjani rising up 3700m from the turquoise waters on the island of Lombok. To set ourselves a challenge
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After a nice few days in beautiful Melaka we over nighted in the rather less beautiful port of Mersing in order to catch the ferry to the island of Pulau Tioman. The ferry TVs were screening a ‘final destination’ while boarding and as we watched the decapitations, impalements and sun bed infernos unfold I couldn’t
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Vibrant.Crisp.Mountainous Sorry for the lack of recent progress with the blog. We go through periods, mostly when it’s my turn to write, when there’s just not enough time in the day and we’ve recently been travelling through amazing places with a great bunch of people but more of that to come. Our arrival into Sapa
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